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The Humanities May Be Declining at Universities — But They’re Thriving on Zoom

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It sounds at first like an ambitious book club—except for the fact that many of these seminars are organized and led by college professors, some so eager to participate that they do it for free. Although some of their seminars are intended as what Hitz calls a “friendly supplement” to college curricula, others are more openly antagonistic.

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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This week my spring 2022 seminar began. It’s a master’s degree course for Georgetown University’s excellent Learning, Design, and Technology program. Here I want to dive into tech for teaching and learning, focusing on pedagogy and support, for the entire semester. These seminars are mostly discussion based.

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How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education

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[The Library of Trinity College Dublin. As many prestigious universities that had previously looked down on the idea of digital learning put their content online, the entire dynamic of inclusion has shifted. Photo by PhotoFra.] This resulted in a kind of wholesome engagement I hadn’t seen before.

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Learning with Twitter Chats and Socratic Seminars

Educator Innovator

Dan and James designed the three groups to help us facilitate inner/outer circle groups for a Socratic seminar over the readings that would also incorporate participation through a Twitter chat. How are you using virtual composing practices in your library to redefine and expand literacy experiences for learners of all ages?

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How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education

Edsurge

[The Library of Trinity College Dublin. As many prestigious universities that had previously looked down on the idea of digital learning put their content online, the entire dynamic of inclusion has shifted. Photo by PhotoFra.] This resulted in a kind of wholesome engagement I hadn’t seen before.

Education 198
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Learning How to Blend Online and Offline Teaching

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Digital instruction is commonly divided into “asynchronous” and “synchronous” modes, with “synchronous” referring to real time teaching in a classroom or virtually over Zoom or other video conference tools. Not every instructor is adept at translating what works face to face to remote instruction.

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Learning with Twitter Chats and Socratic Seminars

Educator Innovator

Dan and James designed the three groups to help us facilitate inner/outer circle groups for a Socratic seminar over the readings that would also incorporate participation through a Twitter chat. How are you using virtual composing practices in your library to redefine and expand literacy experiences for learners of all ages?

Twitter 36